Golf club



l 1an. 13, 1925 A. A. KRAEUTER GOLF CLUB v FiledJan. 1s. 1924 PatentedJan. 13, 1925.

y l,522,635 UNITED STATES PAENT FFICE'.c

ARTHUR A. KRAEUTER, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T KROYDON CO.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY. v

GOLF CLUB.

Application led January 18, 1924. Serial No. 686,972. y

`To all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, ARTHUR A. KRAEUTER, a. citizen of the United States,residing at bouth Orange, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf.Clubs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, andexact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled l0in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates, generally, to iinprovements in golf-clubs; and,the present invention has reference, more particularly to a novelconstruction of handle for golfclubs and lferrule therefor, vwith a viewof providing the leather-bound handle-portion of the golf-club with ameans, in the. forni of -a neat and ornamental end-ferrule, which withconstant use of the golf-club, will prevent the usual unsightlyunravelling of the leather or other material employed as a binding.

The present invention, therefore, has for its principal object toprovide a golf-club of the general character hereinafter set forth, thehandle-portion of the club being bound spirally with leather or similarmaterial, Iand the end of the handle-portion be- -ing `topped off withmeans, preferably in the form of an ornamental ferrule to preventunravelling of the leather or other material employed to produce thehandleportion of the golf-club. i

The invention has for its further object to provide in connection withthe end-portion of the leather-bound handle-portion of agolf-club, 'aferrule having upon its inside a taper, which as thep ferrule is screwedupon the end of the handle jambs down upon the leather and firmlyplnches it, so

that any possibility of the leather unravelling at the end of thehandle-portion is absolutely overcome. v

Other objects of the present invention not at this time moreparticularly enumerated will be clearly understood from the followingdetailed description of the present invention.

With the Various objects of the present invention in view, the saidinvention consists,

primarily, in the production of a golf-club having aleather-boundhandle-portion provided with means t prevent unravelling ofthe leather; and, the invention consists furthermore, in the generalarrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts, `as wellas in the details of the construction of the said'` parts, all lof whichwill be more fully described in the following specification, and thenfinally embodied in the clauses of the claims which are appended to andwhich form an essential part of the said specification. l

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in'which Figure l is a view of a golf-club provided with a leather-boundhandle-portion and a ferrule therefor, all arranged and made accordingto the principles of the present invention; Figure 2 is a view, on anenlarged scale, showing in elevation, a fragmentary portion of thescrew-threaded end of the leather-bound handle-portion of the golfclub,with the ferrule in position upon said screw-threaded end, the ferrule,however, being shown in vertical section; and Figure 3 is an end view ofthe parts represented in said Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a view similar toFigure 2, in which the arrangement of thescrewthre-ads of the end of the leather-bound handle-portion and of the-ferrule are avrranged in a reverse manner from that shown in saidFigure 2; and Figure 5 is an end view of a slightly modified form offerrule. Figure 6 is a detail sectional representation, on a stilllarger scale, of fragmentary parts o f the screw-threaded end of the.handle-portion of the golf-club and of the ferrule, said Viewillustrating the meta-l, ferrule.

provided with a sharp thread, and the wooden screw-threaded part of thehandleportion with a blunt thread.

Similar characters of reference are employed in al1 of the said abovedescribed views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the several figures of the drawings, thereference-character 1 indicates the usual stick of a golf-club, providedwith a suitably formed off-set portion, as 2, see Figure 2, which isvmade with a tapered part/3 from which extends a reduced portion flwhich is provided with an arrangement of screw-threads 5. Thesescrewthreads being made in the wood must of necessity be blunt,substantially as indicated at 6 in Figures' 2 and` 6 of the drawings.V-In the arrangement of the parts, as indicated in Figure 2 of thedrawings, the screw-threads are left-hand threads, while in theconstruction represented in Figure 4 of the drawings, which in allrespects is similar to the construction shown in said .Figure 2, thescrew-threads vare right'- hand threads.

The usual spirally wound binding of leather, or similar suitablematerial, is indicated by the reference-character 7, the said binding aswill beevident from an inspection of 'Figures 2 and 4 of the drawings,being wound and terminatingabout the offset portion 2 of the stick 1, asat8, thelayers of the material 7 being secured in the usual manner bymeans of cement, glue, or the like. In order to prevent loosening orunravelling of the terminating portions 8 or the binding 7, as is socommon in the construction of the handle-portions .of vgolfclubs, as atpresent made, I employ a metal ferrule or cap, of the construction to bepres entlyfmore fully described, the said ferrule or cap'serving atwo-fold purpose z-one as an ornament for the end ot' the golf-club, andthe other to provide a retaining means which prevents any possibility ofthe terminating portion 8 ofthe binding unravelling or fraying, as willbe evident.

The construction of the ferrule lshown more particularly in Figures 2,3and 4 of the drawings, consists essentially of a tubular body` 9, theouter surface-portion or which may be suitably convexed, or otherwiseshaped. Within itsy tubular portion, the said body 9 is tapered, as atv10 and 11, corresponding to the ta ered surfaces of the 'parts 2 and 3of the stick 1.',Above the ta'- pered part 11, the said ferrule isinternally screw-threaded, as at 12, the said screwthreads correspondingto the arrangement of left or right-hand screw-threads 5,'shown in saidFigures 2 and 4 of the drawings, but

the screw-threads 12' being made sharp, so-

that when the ferrule is screwed upon the reduced. portion 4, the sharpscrew-threads 12 will bite into the wood, whereby apermanent andpositive assemblage of the ferrule ywith relation to the end of thegolf-club will be the result; Furthermore, the taper inside of theferrule pinches the terminal endportion of the leather binding, therebyjambing the leather, and producing a very tight and fixed position ofthe ferrule upon the handle-portion of the `goli-club. If desired theinternally screw-threaded portion of the'ferrule maybe left open, as at13, through which the end-surface 14 of the stick, after being properlyfinished off, is exposed, as shown in said Figures 2 and 4 of thedrawings.

This, however, is not essential, and in lieu of the ferrule I may use acap 15 which yis provided with a closed end 16,^as will be eviabout oneof said tapered portions of the` stick, and a ferrule mountedupon'theendportion of said stick, said ferrule having internally taperedportions corresponding. to the tapered portions of the stick,'allarranged :to jamb and pinchv the end ofthe leather binding to preventfraying or unravelling of the binding.-

, 2. A; golf-club comprising a stick formed withy tapered portions, anda screw-threadedl end-member extending from one of said taperedportions, a leather binding wound about a portion of said stickand'about the other tapered portion of the stick, and a ferrule mountedupon the end-portion of the stick, said errule having an internallyscrew-threadedpart screwed upon the screwthreaded end-member of'thestick, and said ferrule having internally tapered portions correspondingto the tapered portions ofthe stick, all arranged to jamb and pinch theend of the leather binding toprevent fraying or unravelling of thebinding. f

3. A golf-club comprising a stick of wood formed with tapered portions,and a screwthreaded end-member extending from one of said taperedportions, the screw-threads of said end-member being blunt, a leatherbind ing wound .about a portion of said stick and about the othertapered portion of the stick, and a ferrule mounted upon the end-portionof the stick, said ferrule having an internally screw-threaded partcomposed of sharp screw-threads, screwed'` upon the screw-threadedenti-member with said sharp threads biting into said end-member, andsaid errule having internally tapered portions corresponding to thetapered portions of the stick, all arraugedto jamb yand pinch the end ofthe leather binding to prevent fraying or unravelling of the binding Intestimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereuntoset my hand this January, day of 11th. 1924.

ARTHUR A. KRAETER.

Witnesses M. PATRICK, C. W. REEVE.

